Mayville High School - Rocket Yearbook (Mayville, WI)

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SCHOOL BOARD. O ALVIN !DREGER, Clerk K C. W. DOCTER, Director H. H. RUEDEBUSCH, Treasurer

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With the completion of the school-ycar in 1918, Mr. L. S. Keeley has completed his thirty-seventh year in that profession. Of all the classes he has taught, the class of 1918 of the Mayville High School is the first to reward him with a book of this sort, although the success of his former graduates is a reward to him by itself. Mr. L. S. Keeley was born in 1858, on a farm near Fox Lake, where he re- mained until he was a young man. During his youth he attendedithe common schools, from which he graduated at the age of seventeen years. He then taught in the country schools for two years. After attending the Normal School at Platteville, he became a principal in the High School at Highland, Wisconsin. Here he remained for two years, then going to take a similar position in Fox Lake. Due to his efforts, the Fox Lake High School was put on the accredited list of schools. For six years he retained this position, leaving to take charge of the schools at Mayville in 1890. Until 1897 he re- tained this position, then leaving it to practice law with the late Judge F. M. Lawrence. Mr. Keeley having prepared himself for this profession during his leasure hours of his school time. After practicing law for two years, Mr. Keeley yielded to the pleadings of the local school-board to again accept the position as the head of the schools. From that year until this he has been teaching the children of Mayville. In 1911 Mr. Keeley was elected President of the Wisconsin Teacher's Associ- ation, and has since then been a member of the executive board of the same. In 1899 Mr. Keeley conducted his first Teacher's Institute, and has continued this practice ever since.

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OUR SCHOOLS. OUR SCHOOL'S HISTORY. The educational history of Mayville had it's origin as far back as 1845, three year before Wisconsin was placed upon the 1'oll-call of the states. The early settlers had been here less than a year when they made their first preparations for a school, knowing that an education was the best estate they could leave to their children. In the winter of 1847 the first session of school was held. There was no school-house, but the home of one of the citizens was used for the purpose. The fol- lowing spring saw a small school-house under construction at the present cite of the Chas. Ruedebusch Co's. store. '